LAB INNOVATOR OF 2012 Q&As; WITH THE COTRANS
know, it's very complicated to produce these lenses. It's not turn-key.
RALPH I definitely believe electronics are here to stay. So we're always involved in cutting edge, you know, Vantage™
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Nina Pollic, Otto Calabria, and Jody Evans, Quality Control and Finishing Department Experts.
RON The next generation is coming out soon. Pixel has refined their labs so that they can produce the glasses. You
Transitions Optical Inc., Safilo USA's Carrera's X-cede, Sun Rx Program, PhotoFusion by
Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc., so ECPs will also benefit because we're always looking for the next new thing. These
JG What is your geographic reach?
RALPH Primarily east coast, west coast, and southeast.
JG And how many salesfolks do you have?
are the seven ways we really try to differentiate ourselves and incorporate them into our marketing.
RON And we're spending a lot of money now on an addition to our building as well as new equipment. By January 2013, everything should be installed and running. We're getting an additional free-form line. We've just bought another edger. We're getting a whole Crizal center.
RALPH Eight. We've got upstate New York, New York City metropolitan area, northeast New England, North and South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and California.
JG That leaves our whole great Midwest.
RALPH We haven't started there yet.
JG Do you do business-to-busi- ness work with other labs?
RALPH Yes, we are very lab friendly. Some labs use us because we're faster than their own processing systems. And a lot of labs use us because they don't have the technology that we have. Once you start using this high-tech equipment, there are things
Congratulations! To US Optical for being named "Lab Innovator 2012"
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